Re: [simonpj@microsoft.com: License]

[Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>]

> Another victory.
> 
> Copied here to tell you the news.  I believe there is already someone
> packaging GHC.
> 
> ----- Forwarded message from Simon Peyton-Jones <simonpj@microsoft.com> -----
> 
> From: Simon Peyton-Jones <simonpj@microsoft.com>
> To: "'GHC users'" <glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org>
> [...]
> 
> Folks
> 
> I'm glad to be able to tell you that both Glasgow University
> and Microsoft have agreed to license the Glasgow Haskell Compiler
> under the "BSD license minus advertising clause".  The text is 
> below.

Am I hearing correctly?!  Microsoft has agreed to license a piece of
software under a DFSG-free license?  Is this a first?  Who's got the
champagne?!

   Julian

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  Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk
        Debian GNU/Linux Developer,  see http://www.debian.org/~jdg